Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
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Live&let die? Think again! My new #HitParadePod on @slate.com is a tour of near-miss hits—No2s, 11s & 41s that became legendary. In this episode…the ’70s: How’d Wings’ No2 Bond theme outlast a No1 ballad? Why’d Steely Dan’s yacht rockers miss the Top10? How’d Elton’s blue-jean baby miss Casey Kasem?
Buster Keaton rides a dandy horse like the one Karl Drais invented in the 1923 silent period comedy Our Hospitality
“We Are Family,” “Wild World” and “Tiny Dancer” are signature songs of the ‘70s that fell just shy of No. 1, the Top 10, and the Top 40.
Clear my schedule, @bilgeebiri.bsky.social just published a long-ass (16,000 words(!) Spielberg oral history.
Last chance to point out again that they're so dumb/lazy they neglected to take off the second "the," so that for months the building has been called "The Donald Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts".
Waiting in a subway station & as two trains pull in at once, the conductors are yelling & laughing across the platform about last night’s game. 💙🧡
Over 30 actors, filmmakers, and close friends recount how Steven Spielberg infiltrated Hollywood and helped the Movie Brats take over.
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The end of last night's bee felt a bit anticlimactic in real time, in that the result of the speed spell-off round was judged offstage, so you never quite saw the moment when the winning word came. But rewatching this mind-blowing speed round is like seeing an elite athlete in peak form. Go Shrey!
This exact image (both frames) is up on the wall near my desk so I can see it every day. Joyeux anniversaire, Agnès!
Great thread on Marcia Lucas, the editor whose work was a key part of Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, & other classics of the New Hollywood era & thereafter.
Dana Stevens
As part of Slate's Spielberg Week (all of which is worth reading! slate.com/tag/spielber...), I wrote on Disclosure Day, a philosophical yet rip-roaring sci-fi thriller that returns to one of the director's lifelong obsessions: the first contact between humans & alien life. slate.com/culture/2026...
As part of Slate's Spielberg Week (all of which is worth reading! slate.com/tag/spielber...), I wrote on Disclosure Day, a philosophical yet rip-roaring sci-fi thriller that returns to one of the director's lifelong obsessions: the first contact between humans & alien life. slate.com/culture/2026...
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Dana Stevens
The new thriller is part crowd-pleasing chase movie, part highly personal meditation on a lifelong obsession.
